Re: Larry wrote....


"Peter Hendra" <peter.hendra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u034v2hk07o32piacr24308ljdf8vb7jek@xxxxxxxxxx

Yah right. Go ahead and believe your nutcase explanations. But at least
ask yourself one thing. Where is the aircraft and where are the
pasengers and crew? Just vanished into thin air? Lost in the Bermuda
triangle? Ha ah ah a ha hah ha hha h ah hahaha!

I have a personal friend who saw with his own eyes the airliner strike
the Pentagon. It flew right over his building and when he heard the very
loud scream of the jet engines he looked out a window. He saw it from
the rear quarter; tail, wings and all striking the Pentagon in a big
cloud of dust, smoke and fire. So, go ahead believe what you will. It'll
make you happy and it won't change the facts. You nut jobs have to have
something weird to believe in so it might as well be that.

Wilbur Hubbard


Gentlemen,
Is it just possible that people can have their say, refute or rebut
information and arguments in a non-derisive manner without resorting
to abusive language.

Surely in this civilised world with all its education and
sophistication it is not necessary to belittle someone with whom one
does not agree. I may or may not agree with such as Larry but I will
defend his right to freely express his views with hindrance. Part of
the right to freedom of speech is to be allowed to have one's say. If
one kept quiet through fear of potential abuse and ridicule then one
would be effectively denied that freedom to speak. Bullying tactics
have no place when seeking the truth. Such as Kepler, Da Vinci,
Galileo and others will attest to this. It is not that long ago the
The Church and learned men believed firmly in a flat earth even though
Eritosthenes of Alexandria proved it to be not and even measured its
diameter remarkably accurately in Ptolemaic Egypt.

cheers
Peter

No, you are incorrect. There comes a point when any sane man cannot let wack job nutcases have a say on an equal footing with the factual and the sensible.

Should that Islamic fascist, Ahmadenijad, who says the holocaust never happened and that Israel should be wiped off the face of the map, be given equal time with legitimate historians who don't deny the holocaust? Hell no! People like that should be shouted down and have rotten vegetable tossed in their faces. The more you let people spout their total nonsense on equal footing with reasonable explanations the more you lend them credence. The more you lower the bar for the reasonable and the sensible. I believe in letting everybody have their say. But, I also believe what people say should have consequences. If you say something stupid and obnoxious enough then, if somebody after hearing you out decides to punch your right in the nose, you learn real fast that actions have consequences and talking crap might just get you crapped on. You've heard the old saying that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted fact? That's the trouble with allowing wack job conspiracists to remain unchallenged. You MUST not only challenge their flaky ideas but you must point out that they cannot think clearly either. You must show their inferior intellects are not capable of rational thought. In other words their ideas reveal their brain function. Dumb, stupid conspiracy ideas = dumb, stupid conspiracy brain.

The widespread belief in human caused global warming is a good example of what happens when you let a bunch of nutjobs spout their nonsense ad nausea over a period of years without challenge. It becomes a religion. A totally irrational religion based on belief and not on facts. That's why it's important not only to refute nonsense but identify individuals who spout nonsense as fact as defective mentally.

Wilbur Hubbard

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